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More than 125 teams and 1,600 athletes from five different states will converge at the Providence Career and Technical Academy field house this weekend for the 4th annual East Coast Invitational.
The two-day event begins on Friday with a series of three relay events and concludes on Saturday with 11 running and five field events. RI MileSplit will provide LIVE results (for Saturday's events) and will also have on-site coverage, providing photos, videos and stories of the meet.
One of the feature races of the East Coast Invite is its Mile Run (beginning at 1:20 p.m.), a qualifier for next month's New Balance Grand Prix. This year's meet features a strong field in both races.
La Salle Academy senior Dan Paiva, who has a best of 4:21 for the eight-lapper, is the No. 1 seed for the boys and will be looking to join his teammate Jack Salisbury (a winner at Dartmouth) at the Grand Prix meet with a victory in Saturday's race. Emmanuel D'Agostino of Brookline, Mass., Ryan Saros of Plainfield, Mass., and East Greenwich's Tommy Sommer, who have all run times in the low 4:30 range, appear to be Paiva's biggest threats.
The girls race will be minus last year's champion, Coe-Brown Academy, N.H., senior Hannah Parker. But the field is stacked with seven athletes that have run faster than Parker's winning time of 5:08.09 from 2014. Rhode Island's top entries will include the La Salle tandem of junior Eliza Rego (4:58.69) and senior Sheridan Wilbur (4:56.60) and the Wheeler School's Lily Foulke,a runner-up at last week's Dartmouth Relays with a best of 5:06. Massachusetts will be represented by two sub five-minute milers from Needham, senior teammates Kaleigh Hughes and Margie Cullens. Sophomore Amelia Mahoney and senior Spencer Hayes of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., have run in the low five-minute range.
Barrington senior Adam Kelly will try and win back-to-back crowns in the 25-pound weight. The defending national champion has broken the 80-foot barrier three times this season, including his nation No. 1 of 82-8.75. Classical junior Alva Hicks is atop the list in the girls' 20-pound weight with her best of 56-11, currently No. 2 in the country.
The boys' 400m feature sub 50-second runner, Robert Hamilton, a junior from Saratoga Springs. Amy Piccolo of Ursuline Academy is the overwhelming favorite to snag gold in the girls' 800m. She has a best of 2:12.48, nearly seven-seconds faster than her closest rival.
In the girls' high jump, Narragansett senior Carly Timpson will try and improve on her state-leading leap of 5-5.75 that she leaped to win her second straight crown at the Rhody Track & Field Classic.
Cumberland's Meghan Scullin is the top seed in the long jump with a leap of 17-10.75.
